English Heritage sites near Much Cowarne Parish
ROTHERWAS CHAPEL
8 miles from Much Cowarne Parish
Family chapel of the Bodenham family. The originally simple medieval building has a fine Elizabethan timber roof, 18th century tower and striking Victorian interior decoration and furnishings.
EDVIN LOACH OLD CHURCH
8 miles from Much Cowarne Parish
The ruins of an 11th century and later church built within the earthworks of a Norman motte and bailey castle, with a Victorian church nearby. The site of hundreds of years of worship.
ST MARY'S CHURCH, KEMPLEY
10 miles from Much Cowarne Parish
Delightful Norman church, displaying one of the most outstandingly complete and well preserved sets of medieval wall paintings in England, dating from the 12th and 14th centuries.
LEIGH COURT BARN
11 miles from Much Cowarne Parish
An outstanding display of English medieval carpentry, this mighty timber-framed barn is the largest cruck structure in Britain.
WITLEY COURT AND GARDENS
14 miles from Much Cowarne Parish
A hundred years ago, Witley Court was one of England's great country houses, hosting many extravagant parties. Today it is a spectacular ruin, the result of a disastrous fire in 1937.
GOODRICH CASTLE
17 miles from Much Cowarne Parish
Goodrich stands majestically on a wooded hill commanding the passage of the River Wye into the picturesque valley of Symonds Yat.
Churches in Much Cowarne Parish
Much Cowarne: St Mary the Virgin
Church Lane
Much Cowarne
Hereford
(01885) 490582
http://www.fromevalleychurches.org.uk
St. Mary’s stands on an eminance overlooking the Lodon valley and is approached via a drive through farm buildings. Adjacent to the churchyard are what are thought to be former medieval carp ponds. The building now comprises a tower, nave and south aisle and chancel all dating to about the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. There are some good monuments including a thirteenth century stone effigy of a knight and nearby the stone effigies of a Renaissance man and his wife with the figures of ten kneeling children around the tomb. Edward Elgar is known to have stopped off at Much Cowarne on his many cycling trips, a fact marked by a plaque inside the church.
Pubs in Much Cowarne Parish
Fir Tree
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